RickyWars

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[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Huh? Per the quoted text in your post:

12% of Democrats say Kamala Harris should do the same if she loses.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

It's totally obscene. I traveled to the USA recently for 5 days and my options were:

i) Pay Telus $14/day * 5days = $70 (plus tax)

ii) Buy a US 30GB 10-day esim for $11.27 taxes included.

Plus in option i) I'd be using the data from my own data plan. Unless you really need to be able to use SMS and receive calls, it's really a no brainer. Especially with how easy esims are to setup, I just had to switch a setting in my phone when I crossed the border. Crazy part is, if it was ``only" twice the price, I'd probably have just paid Telus.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Yes I agree. To me this sends the message ``best case you keep the money, worst cause you have to pay it back." No true penalty.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The $38.9 million fine Cineplex has now been handed is equivalent to the amount it collected from consumers through the $1.50 online booking fee between June 2022 and December 2023.

This is already way harsher than corporations usually get but I can't help but wish it was more that all they got because they come out with no actual loss.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GOG's refund policy is good enough that preordered games can get refunded anyways if they are poor. The ability to preload was worth preordering considering the practically zero downside with GOG. I could have refunded after playing but my computer was powerful enough to push through and still have the performance not be too poor except in a select few areas.

But regardless of the preorder situation, suggesting that this is things done right and we complain too much because there were 4 years of updates improving the state still is a strange stance to take. A game shouldn't be released in a state that it needs 4 years of updates for most users.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Huh? For those of us that paid $90 for a broken game, I think we have a good reason to complain that four years later the game still needs repairing. Sure a company like EA or Ubisoft wouldn't have fixed it but nonetheless there is a fair reason to complain. CDPR wants to salvage their reputation which is why I bet they are doing it---EA and Ubisoft don't have a reputation to salvage at this point.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That allows for uninterrupted Netflix streams and even the ability to join video conference calls. Starlink says it can offer speeds of up to 220Mbps per plane

Still on the pretty slow side considering that large planes can have a few hundred passengers. Still technically interesting I'm sure that communicating with a high-speed plane with an even higher-speed satellite comes with it's challenges.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes I would like something a bit stronger. Nonetheless it's a decrease unless they up the number accordingly. Right now a tip starting at 20% is in fact starting at 23% since it's on tax as well.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

A step in the right direction. I’ve always found it very upsetting that before tip machines, the standard 15% tip was on the subtotal and now it’s always calculated on the total. We are double screwed in that over 15% has been pushed lately and the ``15%" is not the 15% that we used to have.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 92 points 1 year ago

Finally. Hopefully removed from Civ V as well.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have to play the multiplayer? The games already made it's not like they would skimp the single-player to focus on the multi-player mode.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

My experience is the opposite. The hours 3-6 feel more dangerous to me because many drivers are in a rush and very uncourteous. At night there are just way less cars on the road and in general they are much more courteous. However I generally don't ride light enough for them to suffer from very bad sleep deprivation.

 

Multiple people brought to hospital over a mystery substance in the middle of the day.

 

Multiple people brought to hospital over a mystery substance in the middle of the day.

 

Courses, events, friends, etc

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Just trying to get some visibility for this community.

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and 75% off

 

What is the state on PC like at this point? I heard when the game released it was a little bit unstable which has made me wait so far. Is it good now? I have a 5700x and a 3070.

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Hi all,

Anybody do RF/Communications Engineering in Canada? Tell me a bit about your experience. I'm starting my PhD in the fall.

 

Looking to access the music from an Android app.

Currently I'm using Jellyfin (since I already use it for other stuff), but it isn't ideal. No option to download entire albums easily, and if the server is offline then I can't even use the music downloaded to my phone.

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